Lunchtime Conversation
Elizabeth Ellcessor
Date & Time: April 11, 2024, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Location: 101 Carnegie Building
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The Bellisario College welcomes Elizabeth Ellcessor for a lunchtime conversation with graduate students. Ellcessor is an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, Senior Faculty Fellow at the Miller Center, and the co-editor of JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Her research focuses on questions of access and equity in contemporary media, particularly with respect to disability and embodied difference. Her new book, "In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Criss and Normalize Inequality" (2022), considers how 9-1-1, sirens, social media,and other technologies create and shape the concept of “emergency” for diverse publics. Limited copies of Ellcessor’s book are available as well. Attendance is capped at 12. Graduate students may sign up using the following link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zgntsn4eiIFXj_UhjiKTQTyBg5nvhbaoZBMZUjcqy08/edit?usp=sharing
